Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure - Softcover

Chabon, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345508505 ISBN 13: 9780345508508

Publisher: Del Rey, 2008

Synopsis

A rollicking saga set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

Gentlemen of the Road is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soul mates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves, and flimflam artists–until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles following a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars. Hired as escorts for a fugitive prince, they quickly find themselves half-willing generals in a mad rebellion, struggling to restore the prince’s family to the throne. As their increasingly outrageous exploits unfold, they encounter a wondrous elephant, wily Rhandanite tradesman, whores, thieves, soldiers, an emperor, and the truth about their young royal charge, whose slender frame conceals a startling secret and a warrior’s heart.
From the Hardcover edition.

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Praise for Michael Chabon
"Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style."
-The New York Times"
"
"[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America."
-The Christian Science Monitor
"[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity."
-The Washington Post Book World
"Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading."
-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
"Chabon's writing is elegant and limber."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny's to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold."
-Bookmarks

"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Michael Chabon

"Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style."
-The New York Times"
"
"[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America."
-The Christian Science Monitor

"[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading."
-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

"Chabon's writing is elegant and limber."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny's to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold."
-Bookmarks
"From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style.
The New York Times"
"
[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America.
The Christian Science Monitor
[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity.
The Washington Post Book World
Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading.
Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
Chabon s writing is elegant and limber.
San Francisco Chronicle
From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny s to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold.
Bookmarks

"From the Hardcover edition.""

Praise for Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style.
The New York Times

[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America.
The Christian Science Monitor
[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity.
The Washington Post Book World
Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading.
Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered
Chabon s writing is elegant and limber.
San Francisco Chronicle
From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny s to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold.
Bookmarks

From the Hardcover edition."

Praise for Michael Chabon

"Michael Chabon can write like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader with their beauty and their style."
-The New York Times

"[Michael Chabon] is, simply, the coolest writer in America."
-The Christian Science Monitor

"[Chabon is a] stupendously gifted and accomplished writer . . . a writer not merely of rare skill and wit but of self-evident and immensely appealing generosity."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Whether making us laugh or making us feel the breathtaking impermanence of things, Michael Chabon keeps us wide awake and reading."
-Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

"Chabon's writing is elegant and limber."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"From his editorship of an issue of McSweeny's to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold."
-Bookmarks

From the Hardcover edition.

Book Description

A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago in the Caucasus Mountains, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

About this edition

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0345508505
• ISBN 13: 9780345508508
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 224